CSCT 1CS3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Neoliberalism, Meritocracy, Social Constructivism

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
• Course: CSCT 1CS3
• Professor: Susan Fast

Document Summary

Institutions in our society which employ the characteristic modes of production and organization of industrial corporations to produce and disseminate symbols in the form of cultural goods and services, generally though not exclusively as commodities . Adorno and horkheimer the book dialectic of enlightenment. Being critics of popular culture, saw the culture industry as bad. Saw the culture industry as holding back our progress as a society. It is simply serving capitalism rather than helping society get better. Culture in produced to upkeep the status quo of people and groups even though all the money could be put towards helping or solving real problems in the world. Observed that there needs to be a challenge against capitalism. There hasn"t been a strong force to challenge capitalism. Note the time period; and adorno and horkheimer were both from germany after the cold war. The consumers of then and today, passively consume things. They focus more about production rather then consumption.